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Clytemnestra (or Clytaemnestra) (Eng. / klaɪtəm'nɛstɹə /) is the traditional, but mistaken, English form for what is properly "Clytaemestra". "Her name in Greek is Klutaiméstra . . . the form wit...
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In Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, part of his Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra is driven to murder Agamemnon partly to avenge the death of her daughter Iphigeneia, ... Electra and Orestes killing Aegisthus in the presence of their mother, Clytemnestra; detail of a …[Credits : The Mansell Collection]
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Clytemnestra, realizing that her son, Orestes, had returned, begged for her life. Pylades, Orestes' companion, reminded Orestes of Apollo's decree, and Orestes killed his mother as well.
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is fed by hatred and at the same time feeds hatred" [11]. When Electra says she learned hate from her mother, Clytemnestra answers that Electra talks too much of what she does and says. Electra responds: "No! Your own words, your own actions,/Speak for themselves.
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...contemporary and timeless, tells the ancient story of Electra who plots with her brother Orestes to take revenge on their mother, Clytemnestra, and step-father for their father's death. Electra runs at The People's Theatre in Stephenson Road, Newcastle...
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Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda and mother of Iphigeneia, Orestes, Chrysothemis, and Electra. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, raping and impregnating her.
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However, for the "myth" of matriarchy to have had some validity, and in order for a Classical Greek theatre audience to accept the fact that women such as Helen, Clytemnestra, ... These children obviously had a human father, and one who wasn't necessarily the husband of their mother, but when the stories were retold this...
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This page has the story of Athena and Iphigenia at Tauris. ... When the Greek soldiers at Aulis came to get Iphigenia where she was waiting for the summons to death, her mother beside her, she forbade Clytemnestra to go with her to the altar. "It is better so for me as well as for you," she said.
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Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, the loyal mother of Broadway's The Light in the Piazza, will play anguished mother Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon, in the New York premiere of Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0 for Signature Theatre Company this fall. ... The Off-Broadway staging, directed by Tina Landau for ... Told by a cast of 12,
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